St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-13
MINNEAPOLIS SENTIMENT.
The People of the Flour City Ter
ribly Worked Up.


The People of the Flour City Ter
ribly Worked Up.
Public sentiment ran riot i'll Minneap-
oils yesterday over an editorial which
appeared in the morning Tribune con-
tanning villainOuS attack on the per
SOnal character of President Cleveland:
and, still worse, a cowardly assault on
the motives which induced Frances
Folsom to become his wife. This edi-
torial was written while the streets of
Minneapolis were still crowded with
people Of every party and political
creed who had turned out to honor the
nations chief magistrate and his lovely
and amiable wife. 1t was conceived.
beyond doubt, while the president and
his wife were still in the city, the i'll
vited guests of its people-here upon
their reiterated request, relying upon
their honor and the sacred laws of hos
pitality. 1t was conceived while the
foremost officials and ladies and gentle
ing who could do most to
honor a man and woman dearer
than all others to the heart of the Amer
lean people. While huZzas rang through
the streets of Minneapolis and hats were
raised to her who is universally regarded
as the highest embodiment of true wo-
manhood, the editor of the Tribune
sneaked off. to his room and penned an
editorial that is stab at the honor and
honesty of Minneapolis. 1t was a vile
production. 1t was conceived by cow
ard. inspired by sneak and written by
a ruttian. The heart of a gentleman
would have recoiled at the mere thought
of an attack upon a woman, but what
can be said of man who would assas-
Slnate the lady who is his owp guest?
The Tribune was never so widely read
in Minneapolis. Men who had not seen
it and who never read it doubted
the story of the street, and read for
themselves to be convinced and out
ragged. 1t was talked of everywhere
and was everywhere condemned in lam
guage the strongest at the command of
indignant people. Democrats as rule
said little, for they were accustomed to
insult from that source, but Republi-
cans were particularly incensed, and
they took pains to publicly express
their disgust and contempt. Il trust
the editor was drunk when he wrote it's
said one, ''fOr it is charity to believe
no man could be SO lost to honor and
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hospitality and attack the holy name of
wife while in his sober senses" In all
public places feeling ran high, and at
the chamber of commerce prominent
grain man said he would contribute S25
toward fund to reward and pay the
fine of any man who would avenge the
insult to the city by giving the editor of
the Tribune the cOwhiding he richly
deserved. That article will go out"
said he, ''as the sentiment of Minneap-
oils, and will deal the city blow from
which it will take years to recover"
The matter was generally credited to
A. j. Blethen, and in other cases he was
held responsible. the prevailing senti-
ment being in favor of some pronounced
public action that would relieve the
city of the Odium cast upon it. Burning
in effigy. tar and feathers and stout
hOrsewhip were suggested as proper
methods of expressing public senti-
ment. Prominent Republicans visited
the GLOBE Office and requested the
statement that they, as Republicans, re-
sented the wanton brutality displayed
and wanted the public to distinctly un-
derStand they were not responsible for
the cowardly shot fired at the backs of
the city's honOred guests. Many of
these Republicans openly expressed
tilCll NiCNS lOl WtlllG
said they did not care to give their
names, las Blethen would remember
them and they could not afford to fight
a newspaper" If the Tribune had con-
fined its insults to the president. it
would not have been so bad, and would
have been set down simply as one of
the irresponsible aSinintieS of that
thick-and- partisan sheet. but when
1t attacked the lasly public indignation
boiled up to pitch that will yet find
public expression. Below are some of
the expressions publicly made by prom
inent citizens:
AT THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
George X. Shepard-I am staunch Re-
publican but think that article disgrace to
the man who wrote it and the sheet that pub
lished it.
Charles A. Pillsbury-It was totally un-
necessary.
James MARSHALL think the article was the
most uncalled for ever heard.
John Crosby--An insult to the president.
not representative of party.
Captain Osgood--A scurrilouS production.
Charles Handy-l cannot express my con-
broadcast from hospitable Minneapolis.
Vice President Greenleaf--I don't care to
speak on the subject, but of course j have
formed an opinion. 1t is not difficult to
imagine it.
S. s. Linton-I won't talk to reporters, but
/ too have formed an opinion ana you can
Judge what that is.
G. r. Sunwall--I wouldn't let that sheet
darken my table in my house. It's foul and
Mayor Ames-This man Blethen pushed
himself, i'll his capacity as an Exposition di-
recter, in where he was not wanted and al
most hung on to the presidents coat tails
while he fawned upon him. Then he insults
both the president and his wife. l heartily
regret the occurrence, particularly as it will